D.A. Says FBI Balks at Terror-Case Request

By

Sean Gardiner

Updated Oct. 27, 2012 11:29 a.m. ET

A Manhattan prosecutor told a judge Friday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has stonewalled repeated requests for information about a probe the agency conducted into a suspect who now faces rare state terrorism charges.

The FBI abandoned its investigation but has refused to turn over material related to Jose Pimentel on the grounds that a state prosecutor has no power over a federal agency, Assistant District Attorney Brian Fields said. "When we ask for materials we are told because this is not a joint...